Learn enough Docker to be useful and other cool nerd stuff

Fri, Jan 11, 2019

Sup nerds? Only got a handful of links for this one because I only just had the idea to do this. Like literally, 3 days ago.

First up is probably something you already know of, but I found it useful as I needed an admin panel for a project recently. It’s built in Bootstrap 3 unfortunately but still, decent enough for a quick project to slap something together.

Also on HN was a decent discussion after user jessmc asked if web development is still a viable career choice. Spoilers for the verdict but the general feel for it is that yes, keep on keeping on web developers! There’s a lot more worth reading in the thread though!

Docker. Docker’s everywhere these days! Personaly I’ve only just started playing around with it and in all honesty? I am starting to get it. Using containers instead of full blown virtual machines is just the best. Love being able to run my sites’ entire stack in a way that’s basically as it would be in the real world. One of them uses ElasticSearch in production and that was always a pain to test if I wasn’t on my main machine simply because it wasn’t set up. Docker’s the bee’s knees for sure.

Oh, right, yeah. So here’s part one of a tutorial Learn Enough Docker to be Useful - It doesn’t even use a shipping container analogy! Noice.

Last but not least in this newsletter, first of its name, is GitPitch. It’s like Apple’s Keynotes and markdown had a babby or something. Create your slideshow using Markdown. Pretty neat, especially if like me you are a huge fan of storing everything you possibly can in a git repo!

Hopefully these are as interesting to you as they were to me! Let me know if you’ve found anything cool around the internet you think I might be into!

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